Chimera Would Like To Borrow

Auckland Chimera
#1

Hi everyone,

The gear request list has come in, and some of the requests are a little bit out there. Can anyone lend any of the following items to Chimera for a game? Please be aware that it’s being used for larping - nothing precious or irreplaceable, please!

4 crowns – 2 male, 2 female
Flowery headdress/circlet, peasanty
Fake ear
Crystal ball
Misc props for film noir (eg suitcases, guns, ropes etc)
2 ornate mirrors
Large snake (not live)
1 skateboard
Misc lifelike fake dogs
Misc sci-fi props
Cardboard boxes – many
Blue parrot nailed to perch in birdcage
Misc stuffed animals in cages/baskets
20 cushions/pillows
A bookshelf with books
Medical scanner prop
Working video camera
2 large wooden bowls
Misc clean and empty liquor/whiskey bottles
Misc clean and empty wine bottles

#2

What happened to all the cheap pillows that were used at Al Shir Ma? I’d thought that some of them were sent up north.
Scott’s got a fake ear. And there was a skateboard used in the superhero game last year.

OK, some of these things, I can hazard a guess as to what they’re for. But the rest? Um…

#3

Most of the cushions came back, but I do know there were some up there after Teonn.

And yeah I am bringing the fake ear.

#4

They’re in my sleepout, since Scott didn’t have enough space in his garage.

#5

No not those ones, we have 2 big bags of cushions down here. There were also some in Auckland.

#6

There are some cardboard boxes and an elderly suitcase outside my back door that I haven’t chucked out yet. I also have an old briefcase somewhere that might do for film noir. No crowns, but I have a tiara that might suffice for a female.

P.S. I am relieved to hear that the large snake is to be not live!!!

#7

How many is many, can get quite a few from work. They’ll come flat so just need to tape them up again

I have 3 of those glass bottles with the stoppers attached

#8

MissC - I’m not sure how many is many. Let’s say…20? I’ll add packing tape to the list of things to buy tomorrow. We’d like to borrow the bottles too please.
Jadikel - yes please, those would be fantastic.

Does anyone know where that bronze skateboard ended up? Or those cushions?

#9

Sweet 20 should be easy :slight_smile:

#10

You and me both :open_mouth: It’s going to be a great convention! :smiley:

#11

I have a rubber snake, about as long as I am tall (or maybe not quite), and as thick around as a circle with your thumb and finger.
Not sure if that’s big enough, but I can bring it.

ETA: conditional on me finding it when I head home next week

#12

Oh yeah, and any particular kinds of books, I have … alot :open_mouth:

#13

It’s not blue, and there is no cage, but I can source a parrot.

Er, flying free in the fjords has brought out its fiery spirit. (Stuffed toy, not feathered skin stretched over a fake corpse.)

#14

Books/bookshelf can in fact be a large picture of a bookshelf, as from experience I am aware actual books and shelves have large mass and volume. It’s the setting for a bookshop I’m after, so a handful of books for the shop counter works just fine. Literature of any sort, though anything with a Monty Python reference hidden in it would be amusing.

#15

[quote=“Robza”]
Books/bookshelf can in fact be a large picture of a bookshelf, as from experience I am aware actual books and shelves have large mass and volume. It’s the setting for a bookshop I’m after, so a handful of books for the shop counter works just fine. Literature of any sort, though anything with a Monty Python reference hidden in it would be amusing.[/quote]
If I can find it, I can bring the complete scripts for Flying Circus. Although that is a tad meta…

#16

Hmmmm, will look at my shelves / boxes of books and see what I can come up with. As for [quote=“Robza”]Books/bookshelf can in fact be a large picture of a bookshelf[/quote] I would get a single sheet and paint a bookcase with books onto it, easy to hang on a wall :slight_smile: And then you can make up titles too

#17

-Working Video cameras.
I have 2x SD Card Camcorders.

-SciFi props.
Have a medium, 30cm, and small 5cm.
plasma ball.

Also a small jacobs ladder, don’t touch when running, 1m away should be safe :slight_smile:

#18

Oh! Please can I borrow the Jacob’s Ladder on Sunday morning?!?!?!?!

#19

Zara, sure :slight_smile:

Medical scanner, you can’t go wrong with the thermal imager :slight_smile:

#20

We did the Great Annual Chimera Shopping Day on Saturday, and managed to get almost everything everyone asked for, even the snake, the lifesize dog (it comes up to my hip!), a 300l cauldon, a parrot nailed to a perch in a cage (it’s a green parrot but other than that) etc, etc, etc.

This is what we are still missing:
1 CLEAN pair of underpants
7 red stones
1 set of false teeth
Medical Scanner Prop
2 wooden bowls

If anyone has any stuffed animals that they’re not desperately attached (i.e. not cherished childhood relics) that they’d be willing to lend for Stop That It’s Silly, please pipe up - we only need about four.

Also: The Dinner Party Box - if anyone has old plates, glasses and cutlery they no longer want, I’ll be collecting donations for nzLARPS at Chimera. I’m aiming to set up a box of modern plates, glasses etc so that dinner party games in future can actually have plates and things!

Does anyone know where the gazebos are that were brought up for Teonn? They were the shrines in the upper room of the inn. Who did they end up with?